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>Mozilla is working on adding/replacing parts of Firefox with a language emphasizing security (among other things). The safety of the implementation language is far from the only concern when considering the security impact of mod
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If large amounts of code written in memory unsafe languages is such a concern then Mozilla should immediately stop adding large numbers of highly complex new features implemented in unsafe code to Firefox every year, mostly to do things tha
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>we end up in a world of RESTful APIs, some well-documented and some not-so-well-documented, and, when one emerges as the winner, it becomes the de facto protocol. Can you give an example of a proprietary RESTful API that then became a d
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by anon1385 11y ago
Google ad networks frequently display ads that are designed to trick you into installing malware. That is true for both the text only Adwords ads you get in search results [1], and the display ads Google runs on other sites[2]. For many yea
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by anon1385 11y ago
In my opinion the use of 'dark patterns' to trick people into signing up to your money making service is 'evil'. The fact that there are worse things in the world doesn't change the fact that they were deceiving peo
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>Web browser vendors have been reluctant to implement it because of increases attack surface Which isn't a very convincing argument when they are quite happy to implement dozens of other things that vastly increase the attack surfac
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by anon1385 11y ago
This was just the other week: http://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/123981052855/font-pars...
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http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...
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It will be up to the wider community to educate the young impressionable kids who take the money that they have no obligations to YC and that there is no such thing as loyalty in the valley. YC is sure as hell gong to chuck them to the road
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>We understand that $12,000 is not a lot of money, and this won’t make sense for everyone. But for some people, it may be the difference between going to work at a big company and starting the next Airbnb. Maybe if the founders of AirBnB
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It's interesting to look back on how idealistic the early web was: http://www.arachnoid.com/freezone/ I think it's actually still the case that the best quality content on the internet isn't on commercia
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>Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing
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>I think the big reason for suggesting web development to beginners is interpreters and their ecosystem. Learning an interpreted language is much easier, IMO, for beginners than JIT or AOT compiled languages because the tool chains dev&#
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DNS, Javascript, JSON, TLS and certificates, client side frameworks. I always find it amazing that people recommend web programming to beginners. The amount of stuff you have to learn all at once as a programming beginner is really overwhel
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>4. People chiming in that you should only drive for Uber part time. The profit per mile is probably worse for part time driving, but it certainly isn't better. Some times of day are much more profitable than others because there ar
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He does say that his MPG is normally 30 when driving for himself, but becomes lower when driving rides because of all the waiting and stop starting.
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by anon1385 11y ago
It's possible that they are using different video codecs. On Safari H264 and on Chrome VP9 but with only H264 being hardware accelerated. This is just a total guess of course (and I'd have thought it would depend on what the othe
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by anon1385 11y ago
Implementing the newest web 'standards' is often in conflict with security, privacy and usability.
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Scriptless Timing Attacks on Web Browser Privacy [pdf](nds.rub.de)
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>I thought that browser venders we're having the :visited selector lie to you when you call getComputedStyle on them? It's possible to probe the users history even though getComputedStyle doesn't give it away anymore. See
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by anon1385 11y ago
I assume they are referring to software freedom as described by Richard Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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It's very important to note that click to play for Flash in Chrome is NOT a security feature. Sites can bypass it. To quote a Chrome developer: "Click to play is not actually a security boundary. In particular, it has always been
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Is the code on the Pocket servers open source? Can I point Firefox at my own Pocket server (or a Pocket server run by any organisation other than Pocket)?
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>You really think the opinion of game developers should matter in a discussion about how to make browsers reasonably secure for people to use without getting their hosts compromised? Because I don't. I agree, which is why I wish bro
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>But from a surface area perspective, installing Flash makes you more vulnerable, period. So does turning on Javascript. Yet the popular opinion these days is that disabling Javascript makes you a luddite. Mozilla even hid the option for
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If I remember correctly Two Years Before The Mast is referenced in White Jacket for its description of rounding the horn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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>the ad networks those sites are using are rather sketchy. Many of the ads there try to trick you into believing they're the actual download link If that's your definition of a sketchy ad network then there aren't many tha
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So you think the government should step in to regulate (or "enforce contracts" if that phrasing makes you feel more comfortable) AirBnB, where many of the properties are sublet in violation of the contract between landlord and ten
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by anon1385 11y ago
Or to put it another way: they want to turn normal web pages into Flash sites.

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